Since 2001, John MacDougall served as a Scottish Member of Parliament in Britain. He came honestly to his membership in the country’s Labour Party. Indeed, Mr MacDougall started out in life working at an oil rig construction yard as a boilermaker. After becoming his trade union’s shop steward in 1978, he entered a life of politics in 1982. Decades later, MacDougall’s exposure to asbestos during his years as a boilermaker caught up with him. He died of pleural mesothelioma, an incurable asbestos-related cancer, at the age of 60.
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